Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United StatesPresident Bill Clinton admitted to having had an „improper relationship“ while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The affair and its repercussions (which included the impeachment of Bill Clinton) became known as the Lewinsky scandal.

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Monica Samille Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an affluent family in Southern California in the Westside Brentwood area of Los Angeles and in Beverly Hills.

Her father is Bernard Lewinsky, an oncologist, who is the son of German Jews who escaped Germany and emigrated to El Salvador and later the United States.

Monica Samille Lewinskys mother, born Marcia Kaye Vilensky, is the daughter of a Lithuanian Jewish father and a Russian-Romanian Jewish mother; she is an author who uses the name Marcia Lewis.

Monica’s parents‘ acrimonious separation and divorce during 1987 and 1988 had a significant effect on her. (Her father later married his wife Barbara; her mother later married R. Peter Straus, a media executive.)

Monica Samille Lewinsky attended two-year community college Santa Monica College, and worked for the drama department at Beverly Hills High School and at a tie shop. In 1993, she enrolled at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, graduating with a psychology degree in 1995.

Between November 1995 and March 1997, Monica Samille Lewinsky alleged that she had had nine sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual contact in the Oral Office, but that did not involve actual sexual intercourse.

Clinton previously had been confronted with allegations of sexual misconduct during his time as Governor of Arkansas, including a civil lawsuit filed against Clinton by former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, alleging that he had sexually harassed her. Monica Samille Lewinsky’s name surfaced during the discovery phase of Jones‘ case, when Jones lawyers sought to show a pattern of behavior by Clinton that involved sexual relationships with other government employees.

In April 1996, Monica Samille Lewinsky’s superiors transferred her from the White House to The Pentagon because they felt she was spending too much time around Clinton. Monica Samille Lewinsky confided in a co-worker named Linda Tripp about her relationship with the President. Beginning in September 1997, Tripp began secretly recording their telephone conversations regarding the affair with Clinton. In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying any physical relationship with Clinton, and attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case, Tripp gave the tapes to Independent CounselKenneth Starr, and these tapes added to his ongoing investigation into the Whitewater controversy. Starr broadened his investigation to include investigating Lewinsky, Clinton, and others for possible perjury andsubornation of perjury in the Jones case. Noteworthy for its revelation of Tripp’s motivations was her reporting of their conversations to literary agent Lucianne Goldberg. Tripp also convinced Monica Samille Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given her during their affair, and not to dry clean what would later be known as „the blue dress.“ While under oath, Clinton denied having had „a sexual affair,“ „sexual relations,“ or „a sexual relationship“ with Monica Samille Lewinsky.

News of the Clinton–Lewinsky relationship broke in January 1998. On January 26, 1998, Clinton claimed „I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky“ in a nationally televised White House news conference. The matter instantly occupied the news media and Monica Samille Lewinsky spent the next weeks hiding from public attention in her mother’s residence within the Watergate complex.

Clinton had also said, „there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship“ which he defended as truthful on August 17, 1998, hearing because of the use of the present tense, famously arguing „it depends on what the meaning of the word ‚is‘ is“ (i.e., he was not, at the time he made that statement, still having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky). Under pressure from Starr, who had obtained from Lewinsky a blue dress with Clinton’s semen stain, as well as testimony from Lewinsky that the President had inserted a cigar tube into her vagina, Clinton stated, „I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate.“ Clinton denied having committed perjury because, according to Clinton, the legal definition of oral sex was not encompassed by „sex“ per se. In addition, relying upon the definition of „sexual relations“ as proposed by the prosecution and agreed by the defense and by Judge Susan Webber Wright, who was hearing the Paula Jones case, Clinton claimed that because certain acts were performed on him, not by him, he did not engage in sexual relations. Lewinsky’s testimony to the Starr Commission, however, contradicted Clinton’s claim of being totally passive in their encounters.

Both Clinton and Monica Samille Lewinsky were called before a grand jury; Clinton testified via closed-circuit television, Lewinsky in person. Given an opportunity to offer final words on the matter, Lewinsky told the jury, „I hate Linda Tripp.“

The affair led to a period of pop culture celebrity for Monica Samille Lewinsky as a younger-generation focus of a political storm. In early 1999, Lewinsky declined to sign an autograph in an airport, saying, „I’m kind of known for something that’s not so great to be known for.“

On March 3, 1999, Monica Samille Lewinsky was interviewed by Barbara Walters on ABC’s 20/20; the program was watched by 70 million Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show. She cooperated with Andrew Morton in his telling of her life and her side of the Clinton affair,Monica’s Story. The book was published in March 1999 and also excerpted as the cover story in TIME magazine.

Monica Samille Lewinsky made about $500,000 from her participation in the book and another $1 million from international rights to the Walters interview, but was still beset by high legal bills and living costs.Lewinsky made a cameo appearance as herself in two sketches during the May 8, 1999, episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, a program that had lampooned her relationship with Clinton over the prior sixteen months.

By her own account, Monica Samille Lewinsky had survived the intense media attention during the scandal period by knitting. In September 1999, Lewinsky took this interest further by beginning to sell a line of handbags bearing her name, under the company name The Real Monica, Inc. They were sold online as well as at Henri Bendel in New York, Fred Segal in California, and The Cross in London. Monica Samille Lewinsky both designed the bags—described by New York magazine as „hippie-ish, reversible totes“—and traveled frequently to supervise their manufacturing in Louisiana.

Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

At the start of 2000, Monica Samille Lewinsky began appearing in television commercials for Jenny Craig, Inc. The $1 million endorsement deal, which required Lewinsky to lose 40 or more pounds in six months, gained considerable publicity at the time. Monica Samille Lewinsky said that despite her desire to return to a more private life, she needed the money to pay off legal fees and that she believed in the product, while a Jenny Craig spokesperson said of Lewinsky, „She represents a busy active woman of today with a hectic lifestyle. And she has had weight issues and weight struggles for a long time. That represents a lot of women in America.“ The choice of Lewinsky as a role model proved controversial for Jenny Craig, and some of its private franchises switched to an older advertising campaign. Jenny Craig stopped running the Monica Samille Lewinsky ads in February, concluded her campaign entirely in April 2000, and only paid her $300,000 for her involvement.

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Also at the start of 2000, Monica Samille Lewinsky moved to New York City, living in the West Village and becoming an A-list guest in the Manhattan social scene. In February 2000, Monica Samille Lewinsky appeared on MTV’s The Tom Green Show in an episode in which the host took her to his parents‘ home in Ottawa in search of fabric for her new business. Later in 2000, Monica Samille Lewinsky worked as a correspondent for British Channel 5 on the show Monica’s Postcards, reporting on U.S. culture and trends from a variety of locations.

Monica Samille Lewinsky was the host of the reality television dating program Mr. Personality on Fox Television Network in 2003. There she advised young women contestants who were picking men hidden by masks. Some Americans tried to organize a boycott of advertisers on the show, in protest of Lewinsky capitalizing on her notoriety. Nevertheless, the show debuted to very high ratings, and The New York Times said that „after years of trying to cash in on her fame by designing handbags and other self-marketing schemes, Ms. Lewinsky has finally found a fitting niche on television.“ However, the ratings slid each successive week, and after the show completed its limited run it did not reappear. The same year, she appeared as a guest on the programs V Graham Norton in the UK, High Chaparall in Sweden, and The View and Jimmy Kimmel Live! in the U.S.

After Clinton’s autobiography My Life appeared in 2004, Monica Samille Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail:

He could have made it right with the book, but he hasn’t. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. […] I really didn’t expect him to go into detail about our relationship. […] But if he had and he’d done it honestly, I wouldn’t have minded. […] I did, though, at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn’t resist the dessert. […] This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. […] I don’t accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.

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By 2005, Monica Samille Lewinsky found that she could not escape the spotlight in the U.S., which made both her professional and personal life difficult. Monica Samille Lewinsky stopped selling her handbag line and moved to London. In December 2006, Monica Samille Lewinsky graduated with a master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics where she had been studying since September 2005. Her thesis was titled „In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third-person effect and Pre-Trial Publicity“. She has since tried to avoid publicity.

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Monica Samille Lewinsky did correspond in 2009 with scholar Ken Gormley, who was writing an in-depth study of the Clinton scandals, maintaining that Clinton had lied under oath when asked detailed and specific questions about his relationship with her.

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